An update on the #70 bus stop issue, from today’s Boston Globe West Weekly, Globe West Community briefing:

March 16, 2008
WATERTOWN TAKING AIM AT BUS STALEMATE - In an effort to prod MBTA officials to take action, the Town Council voted unanimously last week to push its state legislators to help get the T to relocate the Route 70 bus stop to Watertown Square. Members of the town’s Commission on Disabilities say the current stop at Cross and Main streets is too far for many disabled and elderly riders to walk when connecting to other T buses that stop at the Watertown Square delta. T officials have so far resisted the change, arguing that moving the bus stop would add about 90 seconds to the route. Acknowledging that recent talks between the T and Watertown’s Department of Public Works superintendent, Gerald Mee, have “not been productive,” the council has called for state Representative Rachel Kaprielian and Senator Steven Tolman to step in and broker a deal. Sean McCue, whose family owns one of two taxi companies that use the delta as a stand, asked the council to also consider how moving the taxis elsewhere would affect their customers.

- Christina Pazzanese

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